Hello All
I am new to Open VPN. I have been trying now for several days to get OpenVPN GUI to work on my PC. From what I have read it does not matter which version of Windows is installed (Pro or Home).
First my PC stats:
Wins XP Home edition SP3 (32bit)
AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3200+
2.21GHZ 1 GB RAM
Network:
I am connected to the Internet by a DSL line.
Using DynDNS service to obtain my Dynamic IP address from ISP.
Port forward 1194 to the IP address (192.168.1.150) on the router (Linksys BEFSR41).
The TAP-Win32 Adapter and Local Lan Adapter have been Bridge status states Network Bridge connected. (I have turn off Windows Fireball.)
Using OpenVPN Windows GUI
http://openvpn.se/files/install_packages/openvpn-2.0.9-gui-1.0.3-install.exeThis is package the server.
I have tried to follows this How to link:
http://www.itsatechworld.com/2006/01/29/how-to-configure-openvpn/When I start OpenVPN the icon turns green with no IP address.
Here is my config files for the server.
BTW I have x out the DNS infor for this post.
local 192.168.1.150 # This is the IP address of the real network interface on the server connected to the router
port 1194 # This is the port OpenVPN is running on - make sure the router is port forwarding this port to the above IP
proto udp # UDP tends to perform better than TCP for VPN
mssfix 1400 # This setting fixed problems I was having with apps like Remote Desktop
push "dhcp-option DNS x.x.x.x" # Replace the Xs with the IP address of the DNS for your home network (usually your ISP's DNS)
push "dhcp-option DNS x.x.x.x" # A second DNS server if you have one
dev tap
#dev-node MyTAP #If you renamed your TAP interface or have more than one TAP interface then remove the # at the beginning and change "MyTAP" to its name
ca "C:\\Program Files\\OpenVPN\\easy-rsa\\keys\\ca.crt"
cert "C:\\Program Files\\OpenVPN\\easy-rsa\\keys\\server.crt"
key "C:\\Program Files\\OpenVPN\\easy-rsa\\keys\\server.key" # This file should be kept secret
dh "C:\\Program Files\\OpenVPN\\easy-rsa\\keys\\dh1024.pem"
server 192.168.10.0 255.255.255.128 # This assigns the virtual IP address and subent to the server's OpenVPN connection. Make sure the Routing Table entry matches this.
ifconfig-pool-persist ipp.txt
push "redirect-gateway def1" # This will force the clients to use the home network's internet connection
keepalive 10 120
cipher BF-CBC # Blowfish (default) enc
Here are the View logs of the server:
Fri Jul 20 23:52:26 2010 OpenVPN 2.0.9 Win32-MinGW [SSL] [LZO] built on Oct 1 2006
Fri Jul 20 23:52:26 2010 TCP/UDP: Socket bind failed on local address 192.168.1.150:1194: The requested address is not valid in its context.
Fri Jul 20 23:52:26 2010 Exiting
If I comment out the first line. Here is the Results:
Wed Jul 21 23:25:37 2010 OpenVPN 2.0.9 Win32-MinGW [SSL] [LZO] built on Oct 1 2006
Wed Jul 21 23:25:37 2010 TAP-WIN32 device [Local Area Connection 19] opened: \\.\Global\{DE6694A7-850A-4326-A301-3447B5158483}.tap
Wed Jul 21 23:25:37 2010 Notified TAP-Win32 driver to set a DHCP IP/netmask of 192.168.10.1/255.255.255.128 on interface {DE6694A7-850A-4326-A301-3447B5158483} [DHCP-serv: 192.168.10.0, lease-time: 31536000]
Wed Jul 21 23:25:37 2010 Sleeping for 10 seconds...
I can see the failed IP connection. I have check and double check the instruction n config files, on this How to.
I have search several sites n they all give the same instruction. I haven't figure out what I am doing wrong? At this stage I have no clue as to what is wrong or were go too.
Hope all information here is helpful. Any ideas or help will be greatly appreciated.